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Oregon politics and government we specifically chose part of that progressive conservative populace after we discussed it kind of what the state was like and actually its an edited volume and there are actually 14 different scholars involved and participating, considerate considerable discussion. We could have called it liberal versus conservative, but we felt that would not capture the character of what oregon is about. Oregon has long been known to be a progressive state and doing new things a...

Part of the progressive versus conservative populist after we discussed kind of what the state was like. Actually its an edited volume and there are actually 14 different scholars who involved in participate in it so ask a considerable discussion about how they describe organ. What we couldve called it is just liberal versus conservative but we called we capture the character what oregon is about. Oregon has long been as being a progressive state. That is doing things that is going somewhere, th...

Personal charge of his forces and today has been perhaps the most important for him with the key battles of his nomination fight coming to a head. Bob schieffer reports. Bob the president spent a lot of time visiting various state allegations. He went to some of the headquarters hotels and had other dollar legation to headquarters on the 18th floor of this hotel. One of the things you come away with after talking to people here, members of the white house staff is this the ford people seem a lot...

Mate early. The organization conducted a poll and while it should they would win on the issue, they would probably win on a thin margin. The ford people know when you have a margin that then, anything can happen. They also know that if somehow the reagan forces push that through, there is a good chance it is going to cost mr. Ford some votes. That is why they will be working very hard against it and thats why the reagan folks will be working hard. Walter this has been a crucial day for the prese...

Neither had a majority of delegates. Cbs news was there to cover a contested convention. Part of that coverage was a debate among delegates over a rule that would require president ford to name his running a made. Portion of that debate is 3. 5 hours. This is a cbs news special report. The Third Session of the Republican National convention. This portion is sponsored by merrill lynch. Now here is walter cronkite. Good evening. This may be the most exciting Political Convention session any errors...

Don richie, you brought ari book with you called vietnam hearings. What was this book . This book was printed in 1966. Its 50 years old. It was a book i used when i was teaching a course on American History in the 1960s. I was at the university of maryland and we used this book because it was exsermts of hearings that senator fulbright convened on the vietnam war in 1966 and it was the proponents, the supporters of the war, people like dean dusk and general Maxwell Taylor aopponens of the war li...

Includes his opening statement, many questions and cant comments from senators. First, Donald Richie discusses the significance of the hearing. You brought a book with you called vietnam hearings. What is this book . Donald ritchie it was a book i used when i was teaching American History in the 1960s at the university of maryland. It was this book because experts in the hearings senator fulbright had convened on the vietnam war in early 1966. It was both proponents and supporters of the war, pe...

1966 and it was both the proponents, the supporters of like dean and general Maxwell Taylor and gavin. Cannon and general and we could teach this by showing the students both sides of the argument. Were being they interrogated by senators who are on both sides of the argument. Got to look at what the issues were and get some idea of defense was and what the opposition was to the war in vietnam. Really useable wasnt at came out that thats sly partisan and why the hearings were so important becaus...

Supporters of the war, people like dean rusk and general Maxwell Taylor, and opponents like general gavin. We could teach this by showing the students both sides of the argument. They were being interrogated by senators on both sides of the argument, so you got to look at what the issues were and got some idea of what the defense wasand what the opposition to the war in vietnam. It was one of the first really usable books that came out. It was not enormously partisan one way or the other about t...

And all i am trying to do here, paul, is identify a problem and a course and possible solutions for the American People and hope that bubbles up to the grassroots political process so that you all in government and think tanks can get the job done that you know needs to be done. There is no question that things can go bad. Thank you, everyone, for coming. I really appreciate this. If anybody wants any information about that, crouching tiger. Net. Thank you so much, peter. [applause] [inaudible c...